Hey hey, this is your entry to the 2025 Chapbook Contest (deadline: April 30, 2026) + the print & digital 2025 Chapbook Subscription (includes all the 2025 chapbooks!).
Once you’ve paid for your entry, here’s the required step two:
Submit your manuscript through our Submissions Manager system [here]. You’ll have to create an account with the system if you haven’t submitted to us before.
Make SURE, SURE, that when you enter the submission’s genre, you choose CHAPBOOK CONTEST ENTRY ONLY. Do NOT select “fiction,” “poetry,” or anything else.
That way it gets read, processed, and responded-to properly (our contest submissions go through a different reading process than regular submissions). If you submit under something else things will get munged (though we are happy to read your non-contest submissions whenever, of course) and you’ll have to resubmit. Please give us some kind of cover letter if you like. Or not.
Note: only one file may be submitted through the submissions manager. PDF preferred, or Word format (.doc, .docx), or .rtf is fine if necessary (we cannot read any other word processing formats; sorry). If your submission is more than one file, copy and paste it into one file or otherwise attach it. A zipfile would be acceptable if that’s easier.
You’ll receive a complimentary digital copy of the winning chapbook as well as the print+digital 2025 Subscription.
